Hydrogène : une route encore longue

Arctic Geopolitics, Climate Change, and Resilient Fisheries Management

“…As in the Donut Hole case, the geopolitical fault line involved went primarily between coastal States and distant-water fishing nations. Originally a U.S. initiative associated with a Joint Resolution passed by the U.S. Congress in 2008, 62 the idea that the high seas portions of the Central Arctic Ocean require international regulation soon merged with the Ilulissat process, revolving around the adequacy of the existing framework for Arctic environmental governance. 63 Central to that process is the 2008 Ilulissat Declaration, in which the five coastal States to the Arctic Ocean -Canada, Denmark/Greenland, Norway, Russia, and the USAreminded critics of various kinds, including environmental NGOs, non-Arctic States proposing Arctic bans on deep-water drilling, and an EU Parliament Resolution on the need for a new, comprehensive Arctic environmental treaty, 64 that the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) already provided a framework for such regulation, one that accorded a prominent place to the coastal States: 65 By virtue of their sovereignty, sovereign rights and jurisdiction in large areas of the Arctic Ocean the five coastal states are in a unique position to address these possibilities and challenges [and] ... have a stewardship role in protecting" Arctic ecosystems.…”